Mark Twain Quotes About History
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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.
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History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.
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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
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History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.
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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.
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Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
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It's so damned humiliating.
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By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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